Thursday, October 06, 2005

Some time back I produced a Google Maps page that would render the locations from a live GeoURL RDF feed. I also did some further experiments using XSLT with Google Maps, Google Earth, KML and GPX data formats.

Things elsewhere have moved on somewhat, William A. Slabbekoorn (aka Cybarber) has produced a set of XSLT to transform between the various GPX versions and Google Earth’s KML. He distributes these XSLTs with an IE specific format conversion hypertext application. After a quick scan, most of these XSL appear to be perfectly usable with other XSL engines (I tried some GPX conversion XSL with Javas Xalan and they worked well). There is now also a commercial application called Robogeo that can convert GPX and other formats into Google Maps html. I suspect there are probably other offerings about of which I am not aware.